The backside of the Asus 3800 is nice and
smooth. There are no caps or anything to get in the way of you putting a
heatsink on the backside of the TNT2 chip. Before I did that I cleaned the back
with rubbing alcohol to remove any dirt that might be there.
After the nice cleaning, I put on a Global
Win FA420 on the back. The FA420 comes with double sided thermo tape, making
installation pretty simple. Normally the FA420 is used as a complete video card
cooling solution and it does a good job. However, it's no match for the cooler
on the other side. :)
Here is how the finished card looks. You will
lose 2 PCI slots and create what may very well be the most powerful non peltier
video card cooling system available for the Asus 3800. Now you just need to
overclock it.
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